Trump in a Lighter Vain

I was reading C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity and came across a passage which helped me put Donald Trump’s vanity into perspective. I thought it might help if you have trouble with this aspect of his personality. For this purpose, I will put aside his quite extraordinary and expansive policy agenda, which will take America to a much better place if he succeeds in even getting half of it done. I will also put aside the empowerment and inspiration that Trump’s win gives to those opposing the shroud of political correctness the progressive elites are foisting on the entire Western world.

A first thing to say is that unless you meet someone and spend considerable time with them you can never know them. That’s a caveat. A second caveat is that no one feature defines someone’s personality. Finally, a third caveat, I am not a shrink.

Trump has come under fire for making demeaning remarks about his critics including, God forbid!, women, and his opponents in the Republican…